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Labour Weekend

While I know you are all hanging out to hear about the world cup (which is not far away now), I have a few other stories to tell..

Labour weekend.

From memory, it usually rains on labour weekend but this weekend was beautiful. Arama was suppposed to be in PNG this weekend, luck reigned and the trip was postponed. So what do you do on a beautiful Spring day? Go fishing!!

It has been like, forever, since we have been fishing. Rods in hand and a packed lunch we headed off to the coast.
We stopped off at an old favorite place to get some pipi's but was greated by a sign that told us that the area is now a marine reserve and taking of any sealife is "STRICTLY PROHIBITED". Oh Phoey!!!
Instead, we stopped and had lunch and the kids had a great time playing at the park.




Now, we were sitting on this table enjoying our lunch when Teancum motioned for me to turn around and check out something behind me.

When Hikawera took a look this happened.....


No, Arama is NOT tickling Hikawera. He was in fits of LOUD laughter. Now to get the full understanding why, you may have to enlarge this next picture. (I couldn't resist taking the shot really)

This couple had rocked up a short time before with their yummy lunch, and it was sooo funny to see a grown man nestled (or perhaps balancing ) very nicely on this TINY chair.. His partner had the grace to 'park it' on the grass like the rest of us would.. 10 points for being prepared though, and 100 for the sparkle in Hik's eyes from the sight.

After our bellies were full, we headed off for the real business of the day.



Fishing. We finally found a great spot at LEIGH. This is where alot of boats come in and go out to goat Island and other small islands of Aucklands coast. A lot of commerical fishing boats leave from here too.

Dad baiting up the rods

Teancum is like a magnet for fish.. He loves fishing.

One way to keep the little ones out of the hooks and bait, (and water, brrrrr) was to give him something to eat and a spectator spot.

For those that did not want to fish, or became bored, it was rock throwing time.

Nauvoo found some little pipi's in the rocks around the edge

Dad finally getting some down time of his own.
See the two concrete lines, we had a car drive along those from out of nowhere... really bizzare!!

He is so Handsome....

The tide came up pretty quickly.

Rakai loved to play with the bait fish... Fishy Fishy I smell a fishy!!

All in all a great day, Teancum came home with one fish which was quite yummy and fleshy.. mmm...

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  1. The State of Our FamilyDecember 13, 2011 at 2:43 PM

    Some great fishing photos here. They are all getting so big though...make it stop! ;)

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